The voltage divider is a circuit used to create a voltage less than or equal to the input voltage.
Brushless DC motors were developed from conventional brushed DC motors…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will perform a 4-wire Kelvin resistance measurement and learn how to accurately measure resistance.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will use a potentiometer as a variable resistor to control the speed of a motor and learn how to connect a potentiometer as a rheostat.
By introducing electrical reactance into the feedback loops of an…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will build a thermocouple to measure temperature changes and learn about the Seebeck effect.
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will construct a voltage detector with adjustable sensitivity and audio output, and you will learn a method for detecting small electrical signals without an oscilloscope.
Convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit and Kelvin
Most students of electricity begin their study with what is known as…
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If we take the equivalent circuit of an SCR and add another external…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Suppose I were about to measure an unknown voltage with a manual-range…
Remember that vectors are mathematical objects just like numbers on a…
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At the start of this book, we discussed static electricity and how it…
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Real operational amplifiers have some imperfections compared to an…
A tool designed to convert RF power from watts to decibels and vice versa
How much voltage is there between the following pairs of points in…
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Serial-in, serial-out shift registers delay data by one clock time for…
The normal data inputs to a flip flop (D, S and R, or J and K) are…
There are not too many circuit symbols for bipolar transistors. There…
Early in my explorations of electricity, I came across a length of…
What does the normal status of an electrical switch refer to?…
In this hands-on electronics experiment, you will construct a voltage detector with adjustable sensitivity and audio output, and you will learn a method for detecting small electrical signals without an oscilloscope.
A microcontroller is a specialized type of digital computer used to…
This tool is designed to convert power ratios to decibel
Let’s take the same components for our series example circuit…
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In this hands-on electronics experiment, build an edge-triggered S-R flip-flop, learn the difference between a latch and a flip-flop, and experience how a switch bounce can cause logic errors.
This calculator computes for the capacitor charge time and energy, given the supply voltage and the added series resistance.
In DC and low-frequency AC circuits, the characteristic impedance of…
There are not too many circuit symbols for bipolar transistors. There…
A diode is an electronics component made from a combination of a…
Many electronic circuits use what is called a split or a dual power…
Behaviors of Inductors wrapped around a Conductive Core Suppose we…
Contributors to this chapter are listed in chronological order of…
Note the “50 ohm” rating printed on the jacket of the cable. What…
It is imperative to understand that the type of numeration system used…
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In this hands-on semiconductor electronics experiment, construct a three-stage common-emitter amplifier using bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) and learn about multi-stage gain and feedback.
